Bearing.



H. L. KUTTER.

BEARING. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 18, 1910.

Patented Aug. 12, 1913.

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To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, HERMAN L. Kermit, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bearings, of which the following is a specification.

In certain classes of machinery, paper making machinery for instance, numerous rolls have their journals supported in bear:

ings and it'is desirable that the bearings not" shall be capable of rocking motions only to permit of the bearings alining themselves to bring about good running conditions, but also to permit one end of the roll to be removed fro-m its bearing and raised to 'facilitate the withdrawing of the roll and from the felt or from the other hearing be supported by the web or Whatever. may roll. In other words, capable of a somewhat universal rocking motion in all directions and, as rocking bearingsare usually made, this would not be consistent with economical construction. Bearings for use in the situations referred to are sometimes formed in general frame-parts, and sometimes secured thereto by being bolted upon or sidewiseagainst frame-parts,

taken in connection along 'having a base and the bearings proper are sometimes solid,

and sometimes ,gapped to permit the trans-.

verse displacement of the roll journals.

My present invention rovides an exceedingly economical and e cient rocking bearing to satisfy conditions such as have been re erred to, and the invention will be readily understood from the following description with the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of a bearing exemplifying my invention the lines a -a in Figs. 2, 3, and 4. For the sake of clearness the notch 5 and tooth down into the plane of line a-j-a; Fig. 2 an end elevation of the bearing gapped angularly upward and to bolt against the side of a frame-part; Fig. 3 an end elevation of asimilarly gapped bearing, the base, however;

being formed, like those shown in Figs. 1 and 2 to bolt over a frame-part;'Fig. 4 an end elevation of a bearing gapped' angularly downwardly and having a base to bolt over 'a frame-part; and Fig. 5 a vertical transverse section through the center of the bearing.

- tan'ee from the end'of iindrical' eou'nter'b'ore inner termination is formed b shoulder 2 '4, an outwardly meat acumen 5,

'bcre;fe,'tne-bush1ng same being disposed concentrlcally within engage the bearing should be.

endwise into vquired on the bushing engages the notch Patented Aug. 12, 1913..

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- the drawing-'1, indicates aro sing having a circular bore to receive the bushing or hearing proper g 2, an annular shoulder formed, in the bore of the housing some dis-- the annular ared portion beyond the anof the bore er the" housing a notch in one end of. the housing extending or hearing proper, the

the bore of the housing; 7, a frustum of a sphere formed. upon the eentralportion of the bushingand having a the counterbore of the housing, one

side of this zonic band coming near or to the the bearing'yli, the cyf the housing whose radially from the counter- I diameter to freely annular shoulder 2; 8, the base of the housing providing for the housing being secured to the frame-part of a machine, Figs. 1, 3 and 4 showing bases adapted to be secured upon a frame surface parallel with the axis of the bearing, while Fig. adapted to be secured against a frame surface at right angles to the axis of the bearing; and 9, a tooth projecting from the bushing at the end of the counterbore and adaptgd to freely engage notch 5 in the counterore.

Looking at Fig. 1, the bearing is assembled by merely inserting the bushing the housing, and for ordinary practical work, as about paper making machines, no machine work whatever is rethe exterior of the bushing or the interior of the housing. The tooth. of

' of the housing and revents rotation of the bushing. The bushlng may have considerable rockin motion in all directions in the housing, an thev journal-shoulder which is to be at the left of the bushing, will prevent the bushing from coming out of the housing. The bearin s, as illustrated in the drawing, are so that the journal may be removed by transverse is downwardly presenting, keeper becomes necessary journal-from falling from the bushing when as lnFig. 4, a

transverse strain is removed from the roll,

and such keeper may be formed by a pin 10 displacement. In case the gap to prevent the 2 shows a base In no lateral emplacement of a shaft, said bushby the band,-should extend more than half-- vway around, the circles prevents the transverse d 1; A hearing structure comprisinga housthese constructions the eii'cum fe'r ence o t e-counterbore where it is engaged as shown, This isplacement of the bushing from the housing and requires that the bushing be removed from the housing by endwise motion precisely as though the bushing and housing were not gapped.

. .ing provided with a longitudinal bore, having constituting a shaft bearing, the housing also having a socket near one end there- 'of and a projection on the bushing engaging the socket to prevent rotation.

2, In'a'bearing struetiire, the combinetion of a base provided with an upri ht thereon, said u right being provided wlth a bushing housing, said housing being provided with a longitudinal bore and being also provided with a lonfitudnal gap in oneside of said housing, sai gap being directed downwardly and intersecting a. cross-sectional are in said longitudinal bore less than half of a circle, a bushing within said housing having an enlarged central portion with v a convex periphery engaging the bore in said housing and gapped to permit lateral insertion and remova ing being provided with a socket a projection on. the bushing en aging said socket to;

. prevent rotation of the ushing and a keeper 'oarried b the housing and bridging the opening t erein to support a shaft mounte within the bushing in certain cases.

HERMAN L. KUTTER.

fWitnessesi M. S. 'BELDEN, V THOMAS B. Lewis,

of a shaft, said hous- 

